1.1 The Vector Production Unit (UPV) is a Joint UAB-VHIR unit (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona-Vall d’Hebrón Institut de Recerca), specialized in the cloning, production and purification of adenovirus (human and canine) and adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotypes for public institutions and private companies all over the world.
1.2 The UPV is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
1.3 For the purpose of the applicable data protection legislation, the data controller is the UPV, 5th Floor Edifici H, Institut de Neurociències, Campus UAB, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra 08193 Spain.
We may collect and process the following personal data about you:
Personal Data you give us.
You may provide us with personal data about you when using our Products or Services or when corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide by filling in forms on our website. The personal data you give us may include items such as your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, payment information, employer and job role.
Personal Data we collect about you
Regarding the processing of some specific items of personal data that assist us to improve our Products and to provide our services, we rely on ‘legitimate interests’ as the lawful ground for processing. This includes automatically collecting and using the following information:
• we may also ask you for information when you report a problem;
• if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
• we may ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them;
• details of transactions you carry out; and
• information generated in the provision/supply of products and services to you.
3.1 The data that we collect from you will be stored specifically in our databases and computers, which have no access to external personnel.
3.2 We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
4.1 We use information held about you in the following ways:
• to ensure that content from our Websites are presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
• to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
• to carry out obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
• administration;
• statistical analysis;
• customer profiling and analyzing your purchasing preferences;
• fraud prevention and detection
• to notify you about changes in our website and to the products and services that we offer
4.2 We may also use your data for marketing and publicity purposes or to provide you with information about goods and services, which may be of interest to you, and we may contact you about these.
• If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by e-mail with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
• We will not sell your data to any third parties or share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
5.1 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group.
5.2 We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
• in order to supply any products or services that you ask us to supply. For example, we may subcontract the provision of certain services such as shipment of the products, which may necessitate the disclosure of your personal information (i.e. name, address);
• if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the UPV, the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona, the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, any member of our group, our customers, or others.
The security of your personal data is important to us. Whenever we collect or process your personal data, we will only keep it for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
At the end of that retention period, your data will either be deleted completely or anonymized, for example by aggregation with other data, so that it can be used in a non-identifiable way for statistical analysis and business planning.
You have the following rights in relation to the handling of your personal data:
• You have the right to access personal data held about you
• You have the right to have inaccuracies corrected for personal data held about you
• You have the right to have personal data held about you erased, where allowed by law
• You have the right to object to direct marketing being conducted based upon personal data held about you
• You have the right to data portability for personal data held about you
You can exercise any of your rights outlined above by contacting us at u.pvectors@uab.es. Within 6 weeks of receiving a request made under these rights, we will action the request. If we fail to meet this deadline or if you feel your rights have not been adequately respected, you may complain to the Supervisory Authority and/or seek a judicial remedy.
Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to u.pvectors@uab.es or on: +34-93-581.4201.
